RabGAP22 is required for defense to the vascular pathogen Verticillium longisporum and contributes to stomata immunity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Roos, Jonas ^a   Bejai, Sarosh ^a   Oide, Shinichi ^b   Dixelius, Christina ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE EARTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSCISIC ACID; BINDING PROTEIN; BRASSINOLIDE; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN; JASMONIC ACID; PROTEIN RABGAP22; SERINE GLYOXYLATE AMINOTRANSFERASE 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BRL1 ASSOCIATED RECEPTOR KINASE 1 GENE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS IMMUNITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HOST RESISTANCE; MERISTEM; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEROXISOME; PLANT IMMUNITY; PLANT STOMA; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PSEUDOMONAS SYRINGAE; RABGAP22 GENE; VERTICILLIUM; VERTICILLIUM LONGISPORUM;

ABSCISIC ACID; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BRASSINOSTEROIDS; CELL NUCLEUS; CYCLOPENTANES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; OXYLIPINS; PLANT DISEASES; PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS; PLANT ROOTS; PLANT STOMATA; STEROIDS, HETEROCYCLIC; VERTICILLIUM;

EID: 84894636664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0088187     Document Type: Article

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